Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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Bible References

Thou

Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
Job 22:16
Who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was swept away with a flood:
Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Isaiah 8:7
Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Jeremiah 46:7
Who is this that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

As a sleep

Psalm 73:20
As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.
Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her fortress, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Morning

Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field:
James 1:10
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:

General references

Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.